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PREFACE

TAKE this opportunity of expressing to the faculty and alumni of Dartmouth, and to the people of Hanover who attended these lectures, my sincere appreciation of their patience, courtesy, and hospitality.

YALE UNIVERSITY, Tuesday, 30 January 1923.

W. L. P.

CONTENTS

LECTURE

PREFACE.

I. THE MAN OF THE WORLD AND THE MAN OF

GOD: A DRAMATIC CONTRAST

II. THE SPIRIT OF ROMANCE: JAMES FENIMORE

COOPER.

III. POLITICAL IDEALS: DANIEL WEBSTER AND

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